People Living with HIV

California Gov. Brown proposed Medicaid co-payments that would impose significant financial barriers on the receipt of medical care by persons living with HIV (PLWH), who require substantial amounts of Medi-Cal care annually. This analysis quantifies those costs based on actual medical utilization experience of PLWH in California in prior years. PLWH average 10.3 outpatient visits […]

UCSF investigators are evaluating the effectiveness of Patient- Centered Medical Home (PCMH) demonstration projects, which were recently funded through a initiative from the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP). This work is part of the APRC’s commitment to studying the effectiveness of innovative models of care recommended by the CHRP-sponsored Visioning Change Initiative. The new PCMHs […]

The Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency/Health Insurance Premium Payment Program (CARE/HIPP) subsidizes private insurance premiums for low income persons living with HIV (PLWH) who are disabled and unable to work. Many of these PLWH would otherwise be eligible to receive medication through the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). Cost-benefit analyses demonstrate that it costs more than […]

Scientists announced the results of the iPrex trial in November 2010, showing that overall, a daily dose of Truvada, a combination of two oral antiretroviral drugs, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine, reduced HIV infection in a sample of high-risk men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender (TG) women by 44 percent. Among those […]

During the summer of 2009, the State of California experienced an unprecedented budget crisis, resulting in cuts to social services across the state. Approximately $85 million was eliminated from the budget of the State Office of AIDS (OA) for FY 2009-2010, about half of the allocation of $167 million in FY 2008-2009. Following the cuts, […]

California has amended a number of laws to be compliant with health care reform. Implication: Even if federal law were repealed or ruled unconstitutional, a number of regulatory rules from health care reform would remain in effect in California.

Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act (RWCA) funding is provided to states to cover HIV medical care, treatment, and ancillary services for under-and un-insured persons with HIV and AIDS. California began names-based reporting of HIV (non-AIDS) cases in 2006, thus it is likely that some HIV cases are reported in the code-based registry […]

To ensure that California policymakers and program administrators understand the current epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and to ensure that the state obtains its fair share of federal support for HIV care, the state’s names-based HIV case registry must be as complete as possible. In early 2010, a report issued by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) […]